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Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-07-16 00:01 Link \| ID: 252
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	I'm surprised roller didn't make an entire forum for his beloved arch... so i'm making this thread. Call me a n00b but I always loved debian xfce + the customisation options made to match the OOTB of xubuntu, it feels comfy. Xfce should probs switch to qt though as gtk is likely gonna become less and less viable for them somewhere down the line .

Heredos	Heredos	Posted on 2022-07-16 08:31 Link \| ID: 258
Posts: 46 Joined: 2022-06-16	i understand that one can love debian as it's package manager is convenient and it comes pre-bloated with everything you'd need for a server. yet, i don't think it is a suitable choice for desktops but that's just my point. about xfce though, there are clearly better alternatives out there...

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-07-16 09:07 Link \| ID: 263
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Posted by Compa I'm surprised roller didn't make an entire forum for his beloved arch... so i'm making this thread. Heh true why did I not think of this thread Yeah so as you all already know I use arch btw xDDDD

Danil_2461	Danil_2461	Posted on 2022-07-16 09:08 Link \| ID: 265
Posts: 68 Joined: 2022-06-09	lxqt! its really nice, and mimics xfce in many ways, but uses qt (as stated in its name). ive used it for a long time with openbox, and the speed they two offer is very good.

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-07-16 15:34 (edited 2022-07-16 15:35) Link \| ID: 277
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	I'll check it out at some point. I always liked LXDE but felt it was a bit barebones. Then again I really love XFCE's screenshot tool and CD burning software, oh and Mousepad for text editing too.

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-07-16 20:51 (edited 2022-07-16 20:52) Link \| ID: 283
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Yeah LXQt is a pretty nice lightweight DE. I use it on my laptop and in VMs, although sometimes it feels... empty, like there's something missing from it. For my desktop I use KDE Plasma though, but with the compositor disabled which basically makes it snappier and minimally resource intensive, but even then it's still kinda large and heavy for what I need. My holy grail would probably be a lightweight floating WM that's completely independent and has decent support for Qt and GTK theming (basically... the Plasma desktop but smol). But everything I've tried kinda sucks so I'm sticking to Plasma for lack of better options.

Compa	Compa please just get off the internet already jamie	Posted on 2022-08-02 17:30 (edited 2022-08-02 17:30) Link \| ID: 422
please just get off the internet already jamie Posts: 197 Joined: 2022-06-28	I mean, the name suits you and danil, it has qt in it... UwU I miss Solus Linux and the Budgie DE btw :/

Heredos	Heredos	Posted on 2022-08-02 18:51 Link \| ID: 423
Posts: 46 Joined: 2022-06-16	who remembers solaris btw?

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2022-08-02 22:21 Link \| ID: 426
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Huh, apparently Solaris still exists. I thought it died a long time ago, surely can't see much use anymore.

foodyummy	foodyummy	Posted on 2023-01-02 00:43 (edited 2023-01-02 01:06) Link \| ID: 612
Posts: 17 Joined: 2022-06-27	Happy new year everyone! Alright, so I'm considering switching to Arch, like you roller I tried installing the OS previously but my hard drive was getting old and starting to fail so once the new hard drive ships I'm installing the system again. I've done plenty of reading and I've been using linux for a while so maybe I know a tiny bit about what I'm actually doing!?!? but feel free to correct me on anything But I've actually been meaning to ask for a while since I got back from my trip: do you folks have any recommendations for desktop environments, window managers, boot loaders, etc.? I was thinking about using LXDE (i saw you guys talking about it in the thread) with Openbox and GRUB, but is there anything that might be "better" so to speak? Is there anything else I should keep note of before really diving into arch? I know a bit about how to use pacman and stuff, and I've attempted to use it to install the OS before my hard drive just started spitting out (Input/output error) and crap like that. Like, I know pacman -Syu and whatnot, but is there anything else I should know that I don't? (Is this the first time someone's used code formatting in a forum post!?!?!?) Thank you for your time

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa Site Admin	Posted on 2023-01-02 22:51 Link \| ID: 613
Site Admin Posts: 229 Joined: 2022-06-04	Happy new year! Good choice with Arch by the way, ever since I switched to Manjaro (an Arch-based distro, later I jumped to straight up upstream Arch) I couldn't switch back to Debian-based distros with obsolete repositories and a frankly terrible packaga manager (unfortunately I still have to deal with it during development and managing servers ). As for DE recommendations, well, currently on my desktop I use KDE Plasma. But for my laptop and on VMs I generally use LXQt (not to be confused with LXDE which is obsolete and was forked into LXQt). KDE Plasma is certainly not the heaviest DE (especially with the compositor disabled) but I still want something smaller and more minimal on a system where I need to wrang out all the power I can or am constrained by disk or memory usage. LXQt is... perfectly okay but as I mentioned before it feels a bit empty, for anything other than a VM or a decade old laptop I'd want to pick something different. Plasma I have no issues with and I can certainly recommend, though I certainly pick and choose components (e.g. I use Kitty instead of Konsole). `plasma-meta` is good in that regard because it's a metapackage that installs the Plasma desktop environment without much of anything else, so you pick and choose the system utilities you install in addition instead of having the entire KDE suite forced upon you.

j45	j45 so cute~	Posted on 2023-01-03 15:21 Link \| ID: 615
so cute~ Posts: 10 Joined: 2022-10-06	i use arch too btw i find desktop environments to be pretty bloat-y so i use awesomewm, which is a neat window manager

luatic	luatic	Posted on 2023-01-03 18:36 Link \| ID: 617
Posts: 43 Joined: 2022-06-16	It's especially neat if it doesn't work out of the box >.>

j45	j45 so cute~	Posted on 2023-01-03 21:00 Link \| ID: 618
so cute~ Posts: 10 Joined: 2022-10-06	insert "works on my machine" emoji here